4. Three examples of application of the "Uses, Symbols, Works" approach

4.1 Nantes: laying the foundations for co-construction of the project

In 2013, the French government is planning to widen Nantes' northern ring road. In this pioneering "tramway city", historically very attached to public transport, and at a time when the Notre-Dame-des-Landes airport project has been contested for a long time, this project can only be approached through co-construction.

To initiate and nurture this process, we created a sensitive map of the imaginations of Nantes' inhabitants (Figure 4 ). This survey work was entrusted to students of spatial planning from outside the city,...